Edgar is learning deep-breathing techniques to reduce anxiety about having been robbed at knifepoint. This is an example of
a. problem-focused coping.
b. emotion-focused coping.
c. avoidance.
d. reappraisal.
e. defending.
b. emotion-focused coping.
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a. ?neurasthenia b. ?somatization disorder c. ?seasonal affective disorder d. ?bipolar disorder
You know that you have a major project due in a couple of weeks but find it difficult to get started; after all, there are other things you need to get done too. Your experience is an example of the fact that the motivation to engage in an activity depends on all of the following EXCEPT
a. the reinforcers that engaging in that activity will produce. b. the reinforcers that engaging in the other, competing activities will produce. c. the context of reinforcement provided by the activities that you can choose between. d. whether the activities you can choose between are a good match for each other. e. your history of reinforcement.
Which of the following theorists agrees with the discontinuity of development?
a. Bandura b. Watson c. Erikson d. Skinner
Juliann is 4. If she is like most 4-year-olds, her naïve theory of biology will include the belief that
a. animals can move by themselves, but inanimate objects can only be moved by other people or objects. b. both animals and inanimate objects grow bigger and physically more complex. c. the insides of both animate and inanimate objects contain the same kinds of materials. d. when inanimate objects get damaged, they will heal by themselves, but when animate things are injured they must be fixed by humans.